Translation ambiguity in Mandarin-English bilinguals Translation production differences in concrete, abstract, and emotion words

被引：7
作者：
Basnight-Brown, Dana M. [1 ]
Kazanas, Stephanie A. [3 ]
Altarriba, Jeanette [2 ]
机构：
[1] US Int Univ Africa, Nairobi 00200, Kenya
[2] SUNY Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA
[3] Tennessee Technol Univ, Cookeville, TN 38505 USA
来源：
LINGUISTIC APPROACHES TO BILINGUALISM | 2020年 / 10卷 / 04期
关键词：
translation; emotion; Chinese; MULTIPLE TRANSLATIONS; CONTEXT AVAILABILITY; SEMANTIC RELATEDNESS; NORMS; IMAGEABILITY; FAMILIARITY; NUMBER;
D O I：
10.1075/lab.17037.bas
中图分类号：
H0 [语言学];
学科分类号：
030303 ; 0501 ; 050102 ;
摘要：
Research focused on the cognitive processes surrounding bilingual language representation has revealed the important role that translation ambiguity plays in how languages are stored in memory (Tokowicz & Kroll, 2007). In addition, translation of emotionally related information has been shown to be challenging because a direct translation does not always exist (Basnight-Brown & Altarriba, 2014). The focus of the current study was to explore the processing of ambiguous words for translations that differ in orthography. In Experiment 1, Chinese-English bilinguals translated concrete and abstract words that differed in the number of translations across languages. In Experiment 2, emotion words were introduced into the context, in order to examine differences in emotion translation across languages. The results revealed that words with a single translation were produced faster and more accurately than words that had multiple translations. Finally, translation of emotional stimuli was faster when translating Chinese words as compared to English words.
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页码：559 / 586
页数：28
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